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NOW www.bayportbluepointgazette.com April 2014 GazetteCentral@yahoo.com 8 A round T o w n Editor: Tom Reid Sales: Laura Rhodes Assoc. Art Director: Gala S. Writers: Diana Reid, Danielle Gold- en- Giglio, Tom Reid, Rich Vatalaro, Gene Horton, K. Heinlein, Jennifer Kuefner, Syntax Photographers: Walter Petrule, Tom Reid, Danielle Golden-Giglio, Linda Mittiga, Ed Neale, Tim But- ler, Lenore Ringer-Prezioso, Kathy. Heinlein Contact Us email: gazettecentral@yahoo.com snail mail: PO Box 232 Blue Point, NY 11715 phone: 631-363-0154 fax: 631-363-3615 Produced & Designed by Printmaxx II, Inc. Printed by AGC Printing & Design, Inc. Blue Point 631-363-0154 Printed in USA The People Involved Who We are Bayport-Blue Point Gazette Would you like to help a local family in need? The food pantry at Our Lady of the Snow Catholic Church has proudly served the needs of our neighbors in the Bayport Blue Point area for the past 37 years. We are in great need of all food items to fll the food baskets we give to the less fortu - nate in our community for Thanksgiving and Christmas. Gift cards in any denomination to local area supermarkets would also be appreciated. Thank you for helping those who are struggling in our community during these diffcult times. Items may be dropped off during Offce hours Monday to Thursday 10am-1pm. Please call 363-2417 for further information or questions. Located in the white cottage in the large church parking lot at 175 Blue Point Ave, Blue Point. Seeking info: SAYVILLE ELECTRIC COMPANY From 1900 to 1911, the Sayville Electric Company generated and supplied the frst electric power to Sayville and neighboring communities. The Sayville Electric Co. was the fore-runner of LILCO. The power plant of the Sayville Electric Co. (seen in the old photo) was located on East Street in Sayville just north of the LIRR tracks. The core of the building is still on that site today. Do any GAZETTE readers have any informa- tion, photographs or ephemera of the Sayville Electric Co.? The Sayville Historical Society and Mrs. C. Currie have already been most helpful. Please contact historian Erich Hae- sche if you can assist in this local research project (call 516-729-2044 or email erichh10@aol.com). The Sayville Electric Company Power Building Garden News: Neighbors & Gardeners of Bayport-Blue Point Garden Club will have their meeting at Henrietta Acampora Rec. Center, Montauk Hwy, Blue Point, NY, Thursday, April 24, 2014 at 7 p.m. Roxanne Zimmer will be our speaker. The topic will be composting. All welcome! Questions call 363-8713. Deadline for next issue May 2014..New ads apr 21 Second Annual BBP-Athlon Bayport-Blue Point School District invites the community to take part in the sec- ond annual BBP-Athlon on Saturday, April 5. Check-in for this year’s event will begin at 8:30 a.m. at Bayport-Blue Point High School, followed by the event kickoff at 9 a.m. This year’s course includes a two-and-a-half-mile bike ride followed by a three- quarter-mile walk/jog. Attendees can order a commemorative T-shirt designed by Sylvan Avenue Elemen- tary School ffth-grader Jaimeson Graham and fourth-grader Emma Young, the winners of this year’s T-shirt design contest. T-shirts are $10 and can be purchased online at https://bbpathlon.itemorder.com/sale until March 2. Sylvan Avenue Elementary School students Jaimeson Graham and Emma Young were named the winners of this year’s T-shirt design contest for the district’s second annual BBP-Athlon. The students are pictured here with event coordinator John Selvaggio, Principal Alane Dugan and event coordinator Tim Mullins. Recycling to Protect the Earth James Wilson Young Middle School’s Ecology Club has been learning various ways to reduce waste, protect the Earth and decrease their carbon footprint. To aid in this effort, this winter the club attended a workshop lecture with Town of Islip recy- cling educator Danielle Wynn and coordinated a recycling drive for used electronics. During the workshop, Ms. Wynn discussed which materials are eligible for recycling, several projects that can be done with recycled materials and showed the students how to make paper. During an upcoming meeting, the students will be putting the paper- making lessons Ms. Wynn shared into action. As part of the month-long drive, the club collected numerous used cell phones, cameras, iPods and other electronics. All donations were sent to a California company that either refurbishes the items or recycles the materials they are made of. This reduces the amount of materials in the waste stream, protects the groundwater from toxic chemicals that are in the phones, and reduces energy and pollution from mining of met- als needed in the construction of phones. James Wilson Young Middle School’s Ecology Club collected used electronics during their recycling drive.